Re: [Sursound] Is the LP SV-95002(D) UHJ-encoded?

2016-01-07 Thread Steven Dive
Hi Martin, The Discogs site has the DKP 9001 version. Is this of any use? http://www.discogs.com/Laurie-Johnson-First-Men-In-The-Moon/release/4086074 Steve > On 6 Jan 2016, at 23:08, Martin Leese wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have recently purchased the 1980 LP "First > Men in the Moon", SV-95002

[Sursound] UHJ anyone?

2015-04-17 Thread Steven Dive
In case anyone is still interested in lowly old UHJ pieces, there is one called Flower of Life on most pages on the Immersive Audio’s site I just happened upon that may be of interest, at least for a listen or two. It’s pretty abstract and hypnotic and I found imaging pretty good and stable. I w

Re: [Sursound] Tommies 21st October 1914: A 3D immersive listening experience, designed for headphone listening.

2014-10-27 Thread Steven Dive
Likewise. I get some vague sense of spaciousness but nothing 3D. > On 27 Oct 2014, at 11:28, dw wrote: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p028snwx > Almost all in/near-head, to my ears. > ___ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://m

Re: [Sursound] Encoding a 7.1 audio DVD ?

2013-12-18 Thread Steven Dive
FWIW, the (expensive) Meridian domestic DSP's can accept and decode Dolby TrueHD, which is based upon MLP and one of their boxes can extract 8 channel from HDMI. Also, I know from direct experience that a G series decoder can accept and decode B-format from one of its sets of line inputs. On 18

Re: [Sursound] UHJ disc discovery?

2013-11-05 Thread Steven Dive
I have original CD’s of both Watermark and The Celts and cannot see any ambisonic symbols on either, CD’s or sleeve notes, sadly. I wonder as well whether there was more than one version of one or both albums. On 5 Nov 2013, at 20:35, Bearcat M. Şándor wrote: > To get back to the Enya question

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Steven Dive
Me for one. Steve On 13 Apr 2012, at 08:37, Paul Hodges wrote: Actually, I'd be interested to know how many people on this list listen to surround recordings on a surround system for simple pleasure, as opposed to in the lab or as part of specific investigations of the process. Paul _

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Steven Dive
Is 5.1 better than any 2 channel can be? Surely a matter of taste and experience. Certainly I have not heard all stereo and 5.1 recordings ever made and, so far, no G-format material. My point is from my home user perspective that superstereo and UHJ decoding is pretty easy these days to in

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-12 Thread Steven Dive
Meridian may be expensive, too, but at least they are sticking with Ambisonics. Full horizontal 1st order B-format is now included in their decoders, as well as UHJ, superstereo and Trifield. Oh, and I'm a Meridian customer enjoying one of the few (only?) current domestic ambisonic decoders

Re: [Sursound] problem with jconvolver on osx

2011-09-30 Thread Steven Dive
In case anyone using OS X does not already know, the Apple feedback page is easy to find: www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html Apple probably have some sort of threshold for numbers reporting problems/bug fixes before they act. So the more, the merrier. On 30 Sep 2011, at 09:04, Fons Adriaen

Re: [Sursound] Fwd: Bass Problem in crosstalk cancellation

2011-06-13 Thread Steven Dive
On 13 Jun 2011, at 09:30, Dave Malham wrote: On 12/06/2011 00:34, Robert Greene wrote: Yes that is it! Incidentally, I would like to add a (nonmathematical) point. I think dipoles are more or less a disaster for Ambisonics Bass is one thing, but what dipoles mostly do is bounce sound off t

Re: [Sursound] rf interference

2011-04-18 Thread Steven Dive
FWIW I had RFI breaking in from taxi cabs on my phono connection from a record deck (preamp input 100 microvolts - 100 Ohm/22 nF) and now use similar ferrite ring add-ons as Richard suggests to all the interconnects in my hi-fi just. It seems to work well, at least in the RF ranges used by

Re: [Sursound] Why do you need to decode ambisonic/b format signals

2011-01-27 Thread Steven Dive
, at least for the ambisonic bit. The CD is the Hi-Fi News & Record Review test disc II (HFN015, 1989). It's a pity I don't have room for a centre speaker for Trifield. Steve On 26 Jan 2011, at 21:32, Martin Leese wrote: Steven Dive wrote: One interesting, if odd sounding, effe

Re: [Sursound] Why do you need to decode ambisonic/b format signals

2011-01-25 Thread Steven Dive
du Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Eero Aro wrote: J?rn Nettingsmeier wrote: in theory, you can. in practice, you can't, because you'd have to know what stereo technique was used during recording Yes you can. Just one word: Trifield. Steven

Re: [Sursound] Why do you need to decode ambisonic/b format signals ?

2011-01-24 Thread Steven Dive
From my perspective as a home user of a commercial home surround decoder (Ambisonic UHJ, Trifield, Dolby etc.), I almost never see any info on recording techniques on record labels and I can't foresee any record labels ever stating which microphone techniques were used. The manual for my Me